1.23.2007

Anyone looking to spend $25 on an umbrella? How about $19 on a t-shirt? Wow, mousepads only cost $16? What if, to top it all off, these products could serve as constant reminders of the thing you hate more than anything else?

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the DC Metro Store*. Please remember to set aside an additional seven to 19 dollars for shipping. It may seem like a lot, but remember, the DC Metro Store is "committed to your complete satisfaction." I wonder if the WMATA could say the same about their transportation services. Well, they could, but they wouldn't mean it.

I predict minority youth will purchase the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL size white t-shirts and represent the stations where they are from and battle it out with other minority youth who are wearing t-shirts representing stations from opposite sections of the city.

Rusty you are a genuis. Metro should sell some Limited Edition green line t-shirts complete with go-go chants and shout outs written both on the front and on the back. I am sure they would become top sellers.

Great gift idea for your least favorite relative: buy them a $10 "gift certificate" that isn't enough to buy a single damn item on the list (not even a $11 "ID wallet with lanyard") so they still have to spend money at the godforsaken store, plus shipping.

The messenger bag is sort of cool (but not for $90). and hey you can get a $25 poster of the metro map, how is that better than the ones you can download off the site for free....and the 2005 Inaguration commemeration? REALLY! What YEAR is this? damn. This is a good one rusty. please send link to your wish list.

At least cussing on the metro with an XXXXXXL shirt is better than sitting behind Dr. Daddy's Chevy Suburban with an abercrombie and Fitch popped collar shirt and clutching a $300 burberry umbrella. Put your name down anonymous! Perhaps you are afraid that the so-called "minority youth" will beat your @$$ on the train. They should!

For those who hate, please move, we're begging you. That being said, you don't need t-shirts to start a turf war, you just need silver spray paint, an alley way, and some 100 year old bricks.Then you can fill out the city form to remove the paint so there is limited graffiti in the city and they'll never show up. I LOVE DC! I wouldn't live anywhere else.

I'm a minority and I TOTALLY agree with what Congressional Staffer said. I bought a motorcycle and ride it to work in 20 degree weather JUST, and I do mean JUST so I don't have to ride the green or blue lines from PG county with those goddam disrespectful and LOUD ghetto kids. And of course, no one, including myself ever says anything to them for fear of being drawn into a humiliating verbal (or worse) fight with a 13 year old ghetto girl with big furry boots on, polka-dot tights, a miniskirt that looks like a scarf tied around the waist, and a really bad hairweave.

You know what is funny is when I am on the train and a whole bunch of ghetto youth board it and start pulling store merchandise out of their jackets and jeans with no reciepts or proof of purchase anywhere in sight.

To the blogger who wished me to decorate the front fender of a bus with my motorcycle, hate us all ya want for sharing generalized comments about ghetto youth. I hate em, I friggin hate parents who don't train their damn kids! After a hard day at work, NO ONE appreciates being trapped in a public subway car or metrobus with a bunch of rude, loud GHETTO brats, who CLEARLY lack home training of ANY sort; although they do learn early in life that the way to go is to possess those must-have items to be successful in life - Northface jackets, prepaid cellphones (bad credit ok), and orange sodas. Now go home and teach your children to respect THEMSELVES, not to mention others they share confined public spaces with. It never fails, whenever I'm on a bus or subway from PG county, there is always that one brat talkin loud on their prepaid cellphone (again bad credit ok) or ridiculously annoying beeping walkie talkie (oooh look at me I'm important; I don't have a job or an education but I have a walkie talkieeeeee!), like anyone in the train car wants to hear about the latest menu item at Yums carryout. Gimme a break. We pay for your rent subsidies, your free lunch programs, your food stamps, and your free std clinics - the least you could do is teach your kids not to act like untrained porch monkeys in a public place. So screw you for wishin such evil on me and go tighten your $300 weave and polish your gold teefez. With that said, I'm going online to the DC Metro Store and look for a cellphone jammer.....and some grape koolaid! Hmpf!

To those who think they can talk all ghetto ass baby daddy this and baby daddy that. How fun is it to go to Tyson's Corner and look at all the Lindsey Loahn's in training with their miniskirts and Ugg boots going OH. MY. GOD, that is like soooo totally awesome!They make me sick!

As for the STD clinics, the free lunch and everything else you mentioned, if you so how poorly run and pathetic those services are, they might as well not receive them.

On the other part, if you are so high class that you can;t take it and this kids annoy and intimidate you that much, then you should buy a car and drive like every other ivy league sweatshirt wearing individual on the East Coast.

Ugly is as ugly does, oh anonyous motorcyclist. You talk real per-ty on a blog for someone who doesn't have the stones to tell some teenagers to keep it down.

Rather than my renew my last appeal for DC's wonderful bus system to take you out, I now see that you're probably the type of bright bulb who is riding his honda scooter with no helmet anyway. Sooner or later you will lay it down under a DC garbage truck and we'll have one less bigot to contend with.

For those who aren't closed-minded fools, the real answer would be to volunteer in a community where you perceive widespread problems. But you won't do that. You'd rather chatter like an entitled, self-indulgent little freak. You and your late-night-shots popped collar can just ease on down the road to Smith Point.

People who claim to "hate" DC so much are invariably racists. It's a black majority city.

And every city has it's chavs, neds, schemies, scallies, townies or whatever "charming" title is given to the local working class yoof. It's not just DC.

Kids on public transport in DC are far better behaved than kids on public transport in my hometown. They smoke big skunk or hash spliffs up the top deck of the bus and threaten locals who dare catch their eye - "what're ye lookin at pal...ye wanty get fuckin wide, eh?"

I've never seen a real act of violence on public transport in DC, but in London I saw a boy getting bottled by a crowd of QPR.